The Screenshot Challenge

Things have been really busy most of the summer, so there wasn't a lot of time for serious art. But I finally got a break last week, where I got to spend almost the whole week drawing and catching up, and so I decided to finally do something I've been wanting to do for a long time:   A screenshot challenge!!!

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is really a thing or not. But I had this cute screenshot of Rei Hino from "Sailor Moon" saved on my tablet, and I thought it would be fun to try drawing it to see how close I could get to the original. And then I just finished watching the first season of "Sailor Moon", and so that kind of inspired me to go ahead and do this challenge.

                                                          This is the screenshot I used!!




   

The pencils and inking on this piece were fun to do.  I decided to use watercolor paper, since I wanted to color it with markers and know that watercolor paper doesn't make the colors bleed over as much.

My version ended up being more of a close up than the original screenshot, so I had to change a few things in the layout of the background. Some of the coloring was tricky, like the tree behind her, and also the building and sky we see in the distance has a purplish wash over the whole area... which is something I don't normally try to do, but looked really cool!!!

Once I got close to being finished, some of gray tone Copics started to get really streaky... because this paper is more durable and sucks in the ink, and also because there was so much gray area to be colored. So I was really upset... I had come this far and it was looking so nice, and I didn't want to leave it streaky looking!! So I pulled out my Prismacolor pencils and started trying to blend over top of the streaked gray areas. It took A LOT of blending, but I got it to look just like the marker, and so that is what I used to finish the sidewalk and street behind Rei!

 This is what the finished version looked like before I added a little bit of shading to her jumpers and skin...

... and then here is the final version with just a tad of shading. I decided to not go too heavy on the shading, since there was none in the screenshot!!!

This was just something really fun to do. I think that I could have gotten a bit closer in a few spots, but overall, I think I did a nice job, because this was something I was really into doing. When you're really into a project, you're going to do your best on it!!   =-)


Oh, and since we're talking about screenshots, here's another screenshot picture I did earlier this year, and just got around to coloring!!  This one is on regular sketch paper, so I colored it with Prismacolor pencil. I'm really satisfied with the blending on this, and that it looks so nice and smooth!!! 

I'm going to be working on another screenshot picture soon!!!  In the meantime, I'm working on a few other things that I've been wanting to catch up on, like my Alice in Wonderland picture, and some of my "Little Women" sketches. I'm also trying to sell some of the art that I have sitting on my desk taking up space, like sketch cards and a few cups that I did. I'm at a point right now where there isn't much going on and so I can focus a bit more on some of my forgotten art and not feel like I'm neglecting other stuff!!! 

Have you ever done something like the screenshot challenge?   If so, I'd love to hear about it or see it!!! 


-Stasia -Chan  '15